Wonderland Warehouses is the storage for the more wealthy of Vale. They'll hold anything from your personal Dust cache, to airships, documents, and just about anything you'd be willing to pay for.
But the company is infamous (among other reasons) because of its new owner, Junior Xiong. He recently inherited it from his late grandfather. And with it, he instantly evolved from cunning mob boss, to one of Vale's most notorious untouchable criminals. That made him the perfect tool for Roman's plans.
So when poor Pippi had to go and tell Roman that some crazy blond chick busted in one of Junior's clubs and arrested him, Roman was less then pleased. She could still feel the burn of that slap across her face.
Though at least that's the worst he did. But if something else goes wrong...
"Hey, you okay Pips?" Tommy's voice called.
Pippi focused back from her thoughts to find all her friends staring at her. They were all sitting in the main office of one of the larger warehouses, just waiting around and talking. And Pippi was known as the most talkative one of them all. But tonight, she was silent.
Pippi stood up, dusted herself off, and addressed her friends.
"Look guys. We can't screw this up. Roman is way beyond pissed. I heard the White Fang couldn't come through with their assassin; Junior's been arrested, throwing all our guys around the city into a frenzy. And I heard we lost one of our main divisions on the southern front. This night has gone to complete hell. Let's not make it any worse."
Tommy and Annika both nodded simultaneously. Nilsson just grunted, and Gubben went back to playing solitaire on his scroll.
Pippi sat back down, giving a yawn in the process. She looked up at a nearby clock to find it was almost four thirty. If everything had gone according to plan, they'd all be resting for the big day today. Now though, they're all up super late cleaning up this mess. The plan will have to be pushed back for days. All because of some stupid girls all things.
Nilsson stood and stretched. He looked over to Pippi, giving a huge grin. "Look on the bright side! At least we get to let our stress out on that Yang chick. And hey," Nilsson did a one foot twirl, his dark haired monkey tail lashing out like a whip almost hit Pippi. "we get to try out these new white suits Roman gave us. If you ask me, this day hasn't been all that bad."
"Yeah!" Tommy chimed in. "Roman may look good in these, but we totally rock them!" His sister nodded in support, then went back to signing something to him.
"I hate to tell you guys," Gubben now stood, his cloven feet now showing. "but this day has been a waste of valuable resources. And I remind you all to stay on your toes. We have no idea what to expect from this Yang women. We know little to nothing about her fighting style, and I'm going to guess she'll be plenty angry considering Pippi's message to her."
Pippi's message. She forged that message to get Yang to come to the warehouses. She didn't know who 'Blake' was, and honestly she didn't care. What mattered was killing Blondie. Then getting Blondie's sister. Both have caused Roman trouble, so it's time to be off with their heads! Starting with Yang in wonderland.
A thought just sparked through Pippi's head. She pulled out her scroll and sent a message over to the others. Reminding them to be careful around that red hooded girl and bring as many guys as possible. If the report was true, and she really did take out five packs of Beowolves, they'd need it.
She also sent a message to that White Fang agent to make sure the fall back message near the Forever Fall wall goes well. Even if he has a mask, you can't trust those things to play nice.
Just as she sent the messages, Pippi's ears perked. She could hear the distant hum of a motorcycle not far away.
"Well team, it seems we have a visitor in Wonderland." Pippi announced.
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Blake crashed into the group of thugs, causing most of them to fall into a pile. She recovered and began kicking and slashing around her. All four were down so… wait… four? Weren't there-
Blake barely made the dodge before he made the slash. She dodged to the right, kicked off the building, and landed a swift kick to his face. Once landed, Blake rocketed to were the girl was.
Only when she made it to the center of the mob, she noticed the girl was fighting off these thugs just fine on her own. She used some well place kicks to take out two goons that had charged her, and was now sprinting into the other end of the crowd. Seemingly not noticing three guys in the front were aiming guns at her.
"No! Stop!" Blake cried out in vain.
Just before the three men began to open fire, the girl vanished into petals. In a moment's notice, she reappeared behind the whole crowd. She smiled, waving to Blake.
Blake, dumbfounded, waved back awkwardly.
Doesn't this girl get she's in serious danger? She could've been killed. Is this just some kind of game to her?
Blake could feel her ears perk under her bow. She quickly glanced behind her to see her first opponents recovered, and now were running with half the mob right at her.
"Oh hell!" Blake deflected bullets that flew around her. She was stuck. Soon the entire mob would be around her, and she'd be done.
Just as the mob was on her, petals were all around Blake. For a moment, she thought Adam had somehow returned and had just 'Wilted' half the goons. But when she followed the path of rose petals back to the source, she saw the girl. And she had a large and menacing crimson scythe in her hands.
With one swipe, she sent about ten guys flying back. Causing the whole crowd to shuffle back.
The girl turned her head to Blake and winked. When she turned back to her opponents, her face became dead serious. That look sent shivers down Blake's spine. Something about this girl changed. Her smell became of roses and lacked fear. Her very essence became almost like a torrent of wind. This girl, had become a deceptive form of death.
Well, they're screwed. Blake thought.
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Ruby turned away from the strange girl to face what was left of the crowd. While some were hanging back, most of the crowd was in front of her. Close enough.
She armed Crescent Rose, and fired behind her. The force made her fly at her opponents with blinding speed. She bounced off the first goon she came into contact with, sending him crashing into some of his buddies. As she was passing, she swung the scythe in an arc, sending more thugs flying up to the moon.
She bounced off another guy, this time up into the air. She pulled a switch to straighten out the curve in Crescent Rose. She planted her feet on the back head of Crescent's blade and let gravity take effect. She plummeted into the mass.
She landed with a huge crash that sent concrete everywhere. The thugs were smart enough not to get crushed, though some were sent flying thanks to the force of impact. And some were just unlucky enough to get hit by stray concrete.
During the impact, Ruby quickly pushed a button near the pointed spear end of Crescent Rose. The spear part released and jumped out. Ruby back flipped, catching the spear midair, then landing perfectly.
Ruby focused her aura, feeling the familiar warm embrace of Summer fill her soul. She vanished into petals. Ruby felt a familiar rush of speed and air all around her; she felt like she was pure energy.
A moment later, she reappeared in the middle of the shrinking mob. Focusing on the nearest guy, she sliced his gun in half, then started spinning her spear around her. Dealing blow after blow to the poor individual.
She stopped her combo, paused, then finished off her victim with a kick. Sending him to the next street over.
Ruby pivoted in the direction of Crescent Rose. She hunched down, then shot forward. Spinning her spear in front of her, Ruby plowed through the last of the mob. The street cracked under feet as she ran, and pieces of concrete followed in her wake.
She stopped in front of Crescent Rose; doing a front flip over her weapon (for style of course) and inserted the spear back into place. She then jumped to the ground and freed Crescent Rose from the street.
Ruby spun the scythe around her, stopping to smash it back into the ground next to her. All with an effective crunch for effect.
Ruby looked over what was left of her opponents. The ones she had massacred were starting to recover and were running for it. Some even dragging their unconscious comrades. Meanwhile the other half of the mob she didn't fight were all staring at her with low hanging jaws and wide, white circles for eyes. Her mysterious helper was in a similar state.
Ruby gave a little giggle at the sight. She looked over the crowd, happily shouting, "Boo!"
And just like that, the last of the mob scattered.
"SCREW THIS MAN!"
"EVERY MAN FOR THEMSELVES!"
"WE'RE ALL GONNA TO DIE!"
In less than ten seconds, all of the thugs had disappeared. Leaving Ruby and the still shocked girl.
Ruby put away her beloved weapon and skipped over to her helper. When she approached, the girl was still staring out where the fighting happened.
"Um hello? Uh, my name's Ruby. Ruby Rose. What's yours?" Ruby poked the girl's shoulder repeatedly.
The girl shook her head, coming back to reality. She locked eyes with Ruby.
"Who or, what, are you?" The girl asked.
Ruby grinned. She sucked in a huge gulp of air, then let loose.
"Hi my name's Ruby. Nice to meet you. I have to say that was my first live test of the emergency weapon system. What'd you think? It made sense to use it since most of their auras were pretty weak, and Crescent Rose would've just ripped through them. Plus I didn't have much ammo to go nuts. So I thought it'd be the perfect time to test it. Oh, by the way, cool weapons. Thanks for helping me by the way. You didn't do much to help, but it's the thought that counts. Hey, do I know you from somewhere? Ooo! I like your bow, it matches your outfit well. You wanna hang out sometime? We can be like, super ultra awesome amazing best friends. Hey do you know who, plmh!"
The girl had covered Ruby's mouth with her hands. She had sheathed her weapons during Ruby's onslaught. And now she looked like her head was about to explode from overload.
The girl took a deep breath. She removed her hands from Ruby's mouth. She then started to smile, reaching out her hand. Ruby smiled back, shaking it.
"How about we sit down and talk?" The girl asked.
Ruby beamed with excitement (evident by her eyes turning into stars). She loved making new friends. And she knew the perfect place to go to get to know her new friend.
"Follow me!" Ruby said. She began skipping to her original destination.
The girl, almost reluctantly, followed.
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Weiss waited for her inevitable death. She always died. Every time. And she honestly didn't expect to pull off some freak miracle again this time. This time, the last huntsman would get her tonight.
But nothing happened. Weiss uncurled herself, finding everything had returned to normal again. No, something was different. The leftover sparing bots were destroyed.
And she wasn't alone.
Over by the destroyed bots, four knights were putting away their weapons. Their leader, a tall blond boy, came over and offered his hand to Weiss. Weiss took it, and the boy helped her to her feet.
"Are you okay My Lady?" The boy asked. "We were watching from the observatory when you just collapsed and started screaming."
His team now by his side. Another boy, and two girls. They all wore knight armor attachments over they're normal gear. Standard for special ranking knights.
Weiss bowed and stuttered, "Yes, I'm alright." She nervously moved some stray hairs behind her ears. Barely whispering out some words of thanks.
Even though Weiss was still shaky from the flash, talking to this boy was proving even more unnerving. Weiss was terrible at talking and meeting new people. Actually, even talking to people she'd known for some time could prove challenging. One of these days she's really got to conquer this stupid shyness. If she could conquer stage fright, why not this?
"It's no problem your highness. I, sir Arc, will be here to defend you. Along with Vale's greatest team of heroes. Team JNPR!" The knight motioned to the rest of his teammates. All of them bowed in respect.
Weiss nodded. "Again… Thank you all. Um... is there anything else you needed?" She barley said in a whisper.
The red headed knight stepped forward. She nodded her head to the opened door behind Weiss, pointing out another new face. "Your father's guest has requested to speak with you." The knight turned her gaze to the guest. "And again, it's an honor just to be in your presence professor."
"Professor?" Weiss asked in confusion, turning to face him.
The "professor" stepped forward. He held a cane in one hand, and a folder with some documents in the other. Once he was right in front of Weiss, he slipped the folder under his arm and used his free hand to remove the cigar from his mouth.
"Greetings my dear princess. I am the great and powerful professor Ozpin."